#CitizenLab director warns cyber industry about US #authoritarian descent | TechCrunch

Ahead of his talk, #Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what he describes as a “descent into a kind of fusion of tech and #fascism ,” and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing, and “propelling forward a really frightening type of collective #insecurity that isn’t typically addressed by this crowd, this community, as a #cybersecurity problem.”
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

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